Haryana Government has issued guidelines regarding importance of suo motu disclosure under RTI and also about duties and responsibilities to ensure proper upload of information on websites of different departments. A spokesman of Administrative Reforms Department on Thursday said that the nodal officer for website of the Department or Corporation would ensure that all the information required to be placed in public domain as per section 4 of the RTI Act has already been placed on the website and information is continuously updated on a regular basis.
In case this is not done, the same would be completed at the earliest and a certificate to this effect would be given by Head of the Department to this Department within a week positively. This will decrease the number of applications, he added.
He said that the information including name, designation and contact details about the State Public Information Officer (SPIO) and First Appellant Authority both at headquarter and in the field must be prominently displayed on the website of the department and on the notice board in front of Office of SPIO and Appellant Authority.
The Head of the Department and nodal officers would ensure that the applications received under RTI are being disposed off in time by sending the desired information to the applicant, so that number of appeals in the Commission could be decreased.
The spokesman added that a written communication in this regard has been sent to all the Administrative Secretaries, Heads of Departments, Commissioners of all the four Divisions, Deputy Commissioners, Managing Directors and Chief Administrators of all the Boards and Corporations and Registrars of all the Universities in the state to ensure immediate compliance of these instructions.